Emergency Deep

Alfred Scott McLaren, Ph.D. and retired US Navy Captain, is recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal and two Legions of Merit, president emeritus of The Explorers Club, former senior pilot of the SAS Super Aviator submersible, and president emeritus of The American Polar Society. He is author of Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651) and Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines.

Emergency Deep is authored by a highly-rated, successful commander of a combat submarine in a conflict that while 'cold' could have gone 'hot' at any time. The human side-the personalities, the honest discussions of human behavior, including tension, humor, and occasional terror are handled very well. The volume does an exceptional job of being relatable to anyone who might never get a chance to be in a virtual pressure cooker like a nuclear submarine." - James P. Delgado, author of War at Sea: A Shipwrecked History from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century and Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare"A superb portrayal of a senior command officer conducting some of the most daring, pioneering, exploratory, and military missions it is possible to conceive. It is the description, in part, of primary original geographic, oceanographic, and bathymetric research in some of the most challenging environments the planet has to offer and the human technology, endurance, intelligence, and creativity to match those almost unbelievable and unexplored places, all while maintaining absolute military secrecy and stealth." - Peter J. Capelotti, author of Adventures in Archaeology: The Wreck of the Orca II and Other Explorations

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsPrefacePrologue: Change of CommandPart I. 1969Chapter 1. Prospective Commanding Officers School, Washington, DCChapter 2. Prospective Commanding Officer, USS QueenfishChapter 3. Commanding Officer, USS QueenfishChapter 4. The Pacific NorthwestPart II. 1970Chapter 5. First Cold War MissionChapter 6. Initial Patrol AreaChapter 7. A Golf II-Class SSBChapter 8. An Echo II SSGN and Other Submarines EncounteredChapter 9. Pearl Harbor to the Pacific NorthwestChapter 10. En Route to the Arctic OceanChapter 11. To the North PoleChapter 12. Toward the Siberian Continental ShelfChapter 13. Severnaya Zemlya and the Laptev SeaChapter 14. Across the Laptev SeaChapter 15. North of the New Siberian IslandsChapter 16. The Malevolent East Siberian SeaChapter 17. The Chukchi SeaChapter 18. Nome and the Voyage HomeChapter 19. Pearl HarborPart III. 1971Chapter 20. Local OperationsChapter 21. A Cold War Mission and Preparations for WestPacChapter 22. WestPac DeploymentChapter 23. The Big EventChapter 24. Off Again!Chapter 25. Yokosuka, JapanChapter 26. Our Third Cold War MissionChapter 27. Zaliv Petra VelikogoChapter 28. Yokosuka AgainChapter 29. Yankee Station, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Guam, and HomePart IV. The Hard Years, 1972 and 1973Chapter 30. Final Months in CommandChapter 31. The Operational Reactor Safeguards ExaminationChapter 32. GenesisChapter 33. Final Deployment to WestPacChapter 34. Last Cold War MissionChapter 35. Yokosuka and Hong KongChapter 36. Services to Seventh Fleet and VietnamChapter 37. Guam and Return to Pearl HarborEpilogueNotesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex